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Theme Parks

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RowlattsFox

RowlattsFox

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I'm never scared right up until the point when I'm on next. Then I begin to shit myself slightly.

Not been Alton towers for a few years now but love oblivion. Drayton manor was better as a kid but last time I went it was pretty poor.

Love port aventura in salou as well, hurricane condor (I think) was the last time I got really nervous. Dragon khan is good well.

Going Florida in sept for first time and can't wait.

kingcarr21

kingcarr21

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I'm never scared right up until the point when I'm on next. Then I begin to shit myself slightly.

Not been Alton towers for a few years now but love oblivion. Drayton manor was better as a kid but last time I went it was pretty poor.

Love port aventura in salou as well, hurricane condor (I think) was the last time I got really nervous. Dragon khan is good well.

Going Florida in sept for first time and can't wait.

I highly recommend going SeaWorld and getting on the Kraken. Awesome coaster.

 

Also special mentions to Aerosmith, The Hulk and Duelling Dragons (which i now believe is the Harry Potter Ride)

RowlattsFox

RowlattsFox

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I highly recommend going SeaWorld and getting on the Kraken. Awesome coaster.

Also special mentions to Aerosmith, The Hulk and Duelling Dragons (which i now believe is the Harry Potter Ride)

Absolutely. Got the ultimate ticket package so will be doing pretty much everything.

Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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Has anyone been to American adventure since it shut? Its freaky as hell. Just remains of some rides are left. Crazy

 

Barely anything at all left anymore, I saw photos from around '09 I think, before they knocked down the Motion Master building that looked like Mt. Rushmore but with Native American heads and there were still other buildings standing before demolition, looked like a fun Chernobyl.

 

Dreamland in Japan is notoriously eerie looking, I bloody love shit like this.

 

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Wonderland in China never even opened and is all but demolished bar this...

 

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And Gulliver's Kingdom in Japan is absolutely horrifying.

 

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potter3

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Went American Adventure last summer, there's hardly even any rubble left, nothing recognisable really, unless you're sad like me and can remember the layout of the park in relation to the lake.

Miquel The Work Geordie

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Only real thing I've seen left from photos people have taken recently of the American Adventure are the Pier (which was sinking and probably got the chop), to go kart track and the runs for the rapids, everything else looks overgrown now. God knows why I'm as fascinated with it as I am, need a life.

cambridgefox

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Is it just me or have some of you got more scared of roller coasters as you've got older. Not as in frightened of the big drops or how fast they go but more if the harness fails and you fall out.

When I was younger I never gave it a second thought but as I've got older when I'm queuing up for a ride I sometimes think if something goes wrong I could be dead.

oh yes,never a big fan before as heights do me,but I bet you have never done the walk of shame.Went to some friends in Burntwood and it's only a few miles from Drayton,took my small lad then on the Ben10 ride,and because I'm 6ft 4" I couldn't squeeze in the car! And walked back past everyone looking a right cvnt.Then I went on some other adult ride which was tame compaired to what some have been on on here and wanted my mummy.im 43.Just kept looking at nuts and bolts and moving parts beforehand .As for going on a fair ride,you can forget it.Cant imagine checking the rides in the morning after he has fingered some local bird behind the shooting gallery is top of his agenda before boasting to his greased back haired mates.
pSinatra

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Absolutely useless with heights, but do as many rides as I can.  Went to New York a couple of years ago & I couldn't even stand at the bottom of the Empire State & look up without feeling my legs go.......never mind look down.  Any ride that is principally about height, I have to swerve.  Things like Oblivion & I think I would pass out long before I ever got to the top of The Big One at Blackpool.

 

Not been to a theme park for a little while.  I think Rita was the 'new' ride at Alton Towers the last time I went, but did love Nemesis.  The scariest ride for me are the cable cars when they pass over that ravine.

 

Most recent was Drayton Manor a couple of years ago.  The one ride I wasn't looking forward to was the Maelstrom.  A disgusting ride & not helped by the fact that whilst you're waiting in the queue shitting it, at least half a dozen people getting off the ride are spewing everywhere.  I even saw a couple of people throwing up mid-ride & the attendants having to hose down before the next group of victims. 

Carl the Llama

Carl the Llama

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Used to love theme parks when I was a kid, but the more I actually think about them the less sense they make. Allocating a full day and a exorbitant sum of money to get your head smacked around on 10 rides (if you're lucky) and feed yourself in the meantime? I'll pass, ta.

Webbo

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What's American adventures? I've never seen that one?

It closed over 10 years ago.

deejdeej

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Absolutely useless with heights, but do as many rides as I can. Went to New York a couple of years ago & I couldn't even stand at the bottom of the Empire State & look up without feeling my legs go.......never mind look down. Any ride that is principally about height, I have to swerve. Things like Oblivion & I think I would pass out long before I ever got to the top of The Big One at Blackpool.

Not been to a theme park for a little while. I think Rita was the 'new' ride at Alton Towers the last time I went, but did love Nemesis. The scariest ride for me are the cable cars when they pass over that ravine.

Most recent was Drayton Manor a couple of years ago. The one ride I wasn't looking forward to was the Maelstrom. A disgusting ride & not helped by the fact that whilst you're waiting in the queue shitting it, at least half a dozen people getting off the ride are spewing everywhere. I even saw a couple of people throwing up mid-ride & the attendants having to hose down before the next group of victims.

Glad I'm not the only one that gets nervous on the cable cars, horrible things. And as many other's have said, I'm much worse at looking for faults with loose nuts and bolts etc on rides now! Maybe it's because when we're kids we have so much more trust that everything adults tell us we trust in.
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The Blur

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Went American Adventure last summer, there's hardly even any rubble left, nothing recognisable really, unless you're sad like me and can remember the layout of the park in relation to the lake.

 

 

Why would you want to go to a closed theme park?

Webbo

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I didn't know it closed. Used to go there quite a bit.

And 10 years ago?! Time doesn't fly it disappears.

Apparently it was 2007, so not quite 10 years. My bad.

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